Word: oland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Chan in Egypt (Fox) exhibits the hero of Hollywood's most durable saga investigating a murder case in Luxor where an archeologist has been shot, battered and mummified. When Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives on the scene, he promptly outlines his methods with a proverb: "Insignificant molehill sometimes more worthy of notice than conspicuous mountain." Aided by a dusky retainer and the fiance of the deceased archeologist's lovely daughter (Pat Paterson), he sets about selecting the guilty party from a group of suspects that include an Egyptian butler, a bad-tempered doctor, a druggist, an amiable...
...Glendon (Henry Hull) is a respectable botanist. On moonlight nights, unless he gets his mariphasa, he turns into a wolfish Mr. Hyde, does his best to strangle his handsome and devoted wife (Valerie Hobson). These habits do not seriously endanger his career until another werewolf (Warner Oland) who has run out of mariphasa flowers tries to steal Dr. Glendon's last blossom. The result is a fight between the two and the liveliest sequence in the picture when Dr. Glendon is shot by a pistol bullet while chasing his wife about their house in an effort to bite...
...Charlie Chan in Paris," with Warner Oland and a mediocre supporting cast, pulls itself up by the bootstraps from the sludge of the usual detective thriller by a feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...
...Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...
Most famed contemporary cinema performer of Oriental roles, Warner Oland was born in Umea, Sweden, reared in Boston. He arrived at his current specialty after a long stage career in Ibsen and Shakespearean roles which ended when he made his cinema debut in Jewels of the Madonna, with Theda Bara (1917). Thereafter he played in serials like The Violet Diamond of Daroon. His career as a Chinese started when he played Charlie Yong in East Is West (1922). For his first Chan picture he got $12,500. Now he gets $100,000 for three in a row. In private, although...